The rare people who do become truly exceptional at something do so not because they believe they’re exceptional. On the contrary, they become amazing… - Mark Manson

A relationship that requires you to shrink yourself to fit inside it is the same relationship that will suffocate you if you stay in it too long.

All day, every day, we are flooded with the truly extraordinary. The best of the best. The worst of the worst. The greatest physical feats. The funniest jokes. The most upsetting news. Nonstop. Our lives today are filled with information from the extremes of the bell curve of human experience, because in the media business that's what gets eyeballs, and eyeballs bring dollars. That's the bottom line. Yet the vast majority of life resides in the humdrum middle. The vast majority of life is unextraordinary, indeed quite average. The deluge of exceptional information drives us to feel pretty damn insecure and desperate, because clearly we are somehow not good enough. So more and more we feel the need to compensate through entitlement and addiction.

If you are not turning down things that excite you, then you're not focused enough about something that matters.